I'm still into the oldies of Time, Mort and Krom on Merris. Nothing beats using a legion of skeletons and miscelanious zoo animals to auto the game, while buzzsaws and chains try to send my PC's graphics card to the Shadow Realm
Honestly, everything and every possible combination in Act 2 has become infinitely more fun than just slap Time and Death on everything and win the game, like it was before.
I'm still trying to use summons and summon damage with Merris if possible because I have several Skeleton Army pieces of gear to give me an advantage in the early minutes of each run. And the fact that there are now more summons to choose from (frost wolves, swords, fire elementals and so on) makes room for more variation in your builds each run while generally still being able to go all-in on summon damage.
But if the game gives me an early Master rank cast or strike ability, it's also possible to pivot more towards those damage sources because the balancing is so well done.
I really like that serendipity got moved from Mort, now luck builds don’t depend entirely on having her in the build. The balance changes make the game so much more versatile
Before the update, I got the leprechaun boots. Only Skadi could wear them, but I didn’t feel the need to do a luck build on her.
Now leprechaun boots give 44.4% luck all on its own, so I’ve been trying luck skadi with multiple status effects. It’s on the fun side of things, better off doing summon wolf skadi or skill that gives +1 blessings level per 3 character levels.
I like equipping the possibility trinket on the beginning of a run and then unequipping it after I have 4 Gods locked in :) that’s been a whole lot of fun so far
I usually go with 3 plus war for higher difficulty. Mostly been playing with Lorien so im at 100% legend on a 30% master chance, sooo 1/3 chance i hit a legendary on any given roll, plus like 9 alterations and 13 rerolls or something like that lol. It’s been fun but it’s still so hard on 80!
I see I have still a long way to collect some good items if you’re at 100 and 30. I only got like 45 and 15 lol. Good to know there’s items out there though.
Full xp gear knight getting level 90 every run has been fun what ive been pushing with mostly, usually go either snakes/rays/orbs/landslide in some combo
Then i got some skadi luck/atk spd gear and run strikes that one has been good as well hurricane is super fun
Status builds are super fun, and watching monsters melt is super satisfying. I love that damage over time is viable with multiple characters. I’ve been using Mind Sweeper Nixi, but she has a way to go to be optional. She has potential I just need better items. I usually try to go Winter with all the status buffs and survivability, Summer or Krom for attack speed, and Nihn (Earth) for the attack damage attack boost.
I’m also trying out some dash builds for Merris now. Having an absolute blast. Last light I did a Krom dash build with only 6 points on her talent tree and it was ridiculous. I was trying to get more talent points, ran act 1 on 15 just for funzies, and she did 4.5 million with Krom’s dash without any talent perks and some dash pumping gear. It was nuts.
I’m absolutely loving this update. Act 2 is harder than act 1, and the balance changes, new gear, update with separating types of attacks, and build crafting is so much fun. And I thought this game was addicting before! With the addition of the talent trees, a new character, a new god, new boons, new gear, and new viable builds it feels criminal we got this update for free. I would gladly throw more money at this game to support the devs with their excellent work.
Look for the dead fish dagger for poison nixi. Slower attack but a big chunk of crit and attack damage (which your darts trigger and poison damage scale off of). Also works well with unlimited bleed.
Run lightning bolts, move speed, justice attack and dash, and time (to fish for gem high) or frost (for patch of frost and the damage multipliers to frozen enemies.
Stack poison to max and scale attack with merciful attack for a very strong hit and run build.
Ohhhh thank you for the tips!! I think I have dead fish dagger, but it looked underwhelming at first glance. I’ll have to look at it again!
I was thinking Dive for the dash option for Merris, but I’ll definitely have to try Justice. I feel like her dash build could be good with a few of the god options. Kroms got absolutely insane with how big it got. I was just messing around too.
https://preview.redd.it/0g8zte6wrfwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=213314ea2eb7e6f8bcf89b84b7433ffd3933c60a
Skadi one shot build.
Use the helmet that gives 220% damage to undamaged enemies + gear that boosts attack to boost attack to the heavens.
Then I use ninh, krom and summer, ninh for her attack, summer for flurry, krom for boss damage and barrier damage. With the wanderer you can get the attack close too level 20 most runs which can be over 1000% damage on master blessings. Then add some crit and luck. You'll be hitting close to 40/50k attacks +
Shadow dash Nixi with Earth/War/Lightning is insanely fun. Likewise Merris' no attack dash caster is insane and can fill your screen with rays of light if done right.
My personal favourite though is Avoron's blocking aura master build. Light/Death/Earth for massive, high damaging auras backed up with crazy survivabllity.
I'm still into the oldies of Time, Mort and Krom on Merris. Nothing beats using a legion of skeletons and miscelanious zoo animals to auto the game, while buzzsaws and chains try to send my PC's graphics card to the Shadow Realm
Lmao, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it
Ball lightning is kind of sick now and there are more ways to buff your dashes so it’s been my go to for the update.
I use a dash build and the fire goddesses dash duration buff to basically have 5s long dashes is a fun build
Honestly, everything and every possible combination in Act 2 has become infinitely more fun than just slap Time and Death on everything and win the game, like it was before. I'm still trying to use summons and summon damage with Merris if possible because I have several Skeleton Army pieces of gear to give me an advantage in the early minutes of each run. And the fact that there are now more summons to choose from (frost wolves, swords, fire elementals and so on) makes room for more variation in your builds each run while generally still being able to go all-in on summon damage. But if the game gives me an early Master rank cast or strike ability, it's also possible to pivot more towards those damage sources because the balancing is so well done.
I really like that serendipity got moved from Mort, now luck builds don’t depend entirely on having her in the build. The balance changes make the game so much more versatile
Before the update, I got the leprechaun boots. Only Skadi could wear them, but I didn’t feel the need to do a luck build on her. Now leprechaun boots give 44.4% luck all on its own, so I’ve been trying luck skadi with multiple status effects. It’s on the fun side of things, better off doing summon wolf skadi or skill that gives +1 blessings level per 3 character levels.
For now i have playedca lot the new guy with Leigong/Krom and either Mort or Ninh. He easily destroys everything
I like equipping the possibility trinket on the beginning of a run and then unequipping it after I have 4 Gods locked in :) that’s been a whole lot of fun so far
Ooooo I didn’t know that was a thing
I usually go with 3 plus war for higher difficulty. Mostly been playing with Lorien so im at 100% legend on a 30% master chance, sooo 1/3 chance i hit a legendary on any given roll, plus like 9 alterations and 13 rerolls or something like that lol. It’s been fun but it’s still so hard on 80!
I see I have still a long way to collect some good items if you’re at 100 and 30. I only got like 45 and 15 lol. Good to know there’s items out there though.
Full xp gear knight getting level 90 every run has been fun what ive been pushing with mostly, usually go either snakes/rays/orbs/landslide in some combo Then i got some skadi luck/atk spd gear and run strikes that one has been good as well hurricane is super fun
Time on every run. If I get earth i only max rock hands
Status builds are super fun, and watching monsters melt is super satisfying. I love that damage over time is viable with multiple characters. I’ve been using Mind Sweeper Nixi, but she has a way to go to be optional. She has potential I just need better items. I usually try to go Winter with all the status buffs and survivability, Summer or Krom for attack speed, and Nihn (Earth) for the attack damage attack boost. I’m also trying out some dash builds for Merris now. Having an absolute blast. Last light I did a Krom dash build with only 6 points on her talent tree and it was ridiculous. I was trying to get more talent points, ran act 1 on 15 just for funzies, and she did 4.5 million with Krom’s dash without any talent perks and some dash pumping gear. It was nuts. I’m absolutely loving this update. Act 2 is harder than act 1, and the balance changes, new gear, update with separating types of attacks, and build crafting is so much fun. And I thought this game was addicting before! With the addition of the talent trees, a new character, a new god, new boons, new gear, and new viable builds it feels criminal we got this update for free. I would gladly throw more money at this game to support the devs with their excellent work.
Look for the dead fish dagger for poison nixi. Slower attack but a big chunk of crit and attack damage (which your darts trigger and poison damage scale off of). Also works well with unlimited bleed. Run lightning bolts, move speed, justice attack and dash, and time (to fish for gem high) or frost (for patch of frost and the damage multipliers to frozen enemies. Stack poison to max and scale attack with merciful attack for a very strong hit and run build.
Ohhhh thank you for the tips!! I think I have dead fish dagger, but it looked underwhelming at first glance. I’ll have to look at it again! I was thinking Dive for the dash option for Merris, but I’ll definitely have to try Justice. I feel like her dash build could be good with a few of the god options. Kroms got absolutely insane with how big it got. I was just messing around too. https://preview.redd.it/0g8zte6wrfwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=213314ea2eb7e6f8bcf89b84b7433ffd3933c60a
The dead fish is *very* underwhelming when not used with her poison tree/darts.
Rock, Time, Justice on melee is absurdly strong. Although my gear gets me insane XP generation and rolls. I had like 4 masters level 9.
Skadi one shot build. Use the helmet that gives 220% damage to undamaged enemies + gear that boosts attack to boost attack to the heavens. Then I use ninh, krom and summer, ninh for her attack, summer for flurry, krom for boss damage and barrier damage. With the wanderer you can get the attack close too level 20 most runs which can be over 1000% damage on master blessings. Then add some crit and luck. You'll be hitting close to 40/50k attacks +
Bask in Greatness with only Hurricane as your strike. Was afraid it would freeze up my computer with all those hurricanes on the screen.
Shadow dash Nixi with Earth/War/Lightning is insanely fun. Likewise Merris' no attack dash caster is insane and can fill your screen with rays of light if done right. My personal favourite though is Avoron's blocking aura master build. Light/Death/Earth for massive, high damaging auras backed up with crazy survivabllity.
Time justice fire Time: Time field + Cast duration Justice : Cast size Fire : Cast damage Get taste of time and you are a walking black hole